That was the moment I stopped grieving the loss of this family, if I had still been grieving it at all.

You cannot lose something that was willing to do that to you.

You can only escape it.

Barnabas handed Ferdinand two legal packets.

“The first is a petition for the immediate dissolution of your marriage.

The second is an emergency notice of your removal as chief executive of Ellington Enterprises, pending a full forensic investigation into corporate fraud, grand larceny, and asset dissipation.”